Apr 20, 2010

The baked crab cakes are out of this world! You'll think they came from a high end restaurant.
Serve these as an appetizer or enjoy as a meal with a salad.

Trying to come up with a low fat crab cake was quite a challenge, but you won't miss the fried version when you taste these. The sauce adds just the right amount of heat to them, but you can adjust to your taste.

I highly recommend using fresh crab meat rather than canned for best results. Do not skip refrigerating the patties before baking, this really helps them stay together.

Gina, I just want to THANK YOU for all your hard work in keeping this site!! Your recipes are AMAZING and your photos draw me in by their appearance of lusciousness!!! THANKS AGAIN!! I will be making yet another "Gina" recipe!! :o)

You could use imitation crab meat, it just won't taste as good as fresh lump crab meat. Also, I've tried this with canned crab, but I did not care for the taste. It had a metallic taste to it. Fresh is best!

gina- i kinda feel dumb asking this but i was wondering if you could explain what jarred roasted peppers are or where i could get them. is that something i could get at like safeway?sorry! i'm just getting into cooking! thanks for your help!

Thank you so much for this recipe- the crabcakes were delicious! I'm also very thankful for the tip you gave about gently folding the crab into the mixture. I've made crabcakes before and roughly combined all the ingredients. Eating chunks of crab doesn't even compare. Lovely!

I made these as a special treat for my husband for Valentine's Day. Delicious, especially with the sauce! I doubled the recipe, in order to have leftovers. My husband took 2 to work the next day, and when he reheated them at his office, his coworkers wanted to know where he got such wonderful food! Thanks for making them think I'm a great cook!

Made these tonight with my fiance. Unfortunately our market was sold out of lump crab meat but we bought some pasteurized stuff in can. Expensive but tasted amazing! We also accidentally bought the peppers in oil so I just rinsed them. I've ordered crab cakes a few times and split them with my fiance, and they have NEVER been as good as these were! Seriously, filling but not overwhelmingly rich.

Just found this and I would like to try it out! I've never bought crab before, and I'm a little confused - everything I'm finding (even the fresh stuff) is already cooked. Is that what I should be buying, or should I be looking for uncooked lump?

I made these tonight and they were WONDERFUL! My husband and I gobbled them up. The little ones didn't love them so much but they gave them a shot. That's fine with us since it meant more for my husband and I! :) I can't wait to make them again.

Gina- I love your site! I had my parents & brother over for dinner last Saturday & my mom recently lost 30 pounds and has been a real pain at ANYTHING where food is served, making it hard to cook for the boys & her. My dad is obsessed with crab cakes, so I made these - no one but mom knew they were low cal & they were a HUGE hit. I served them with some pan friend corn & asparagus with a little olive oil and minced garlic. These were amazing!

Delicious! My family loved these. Do you think it would be ok to make them the night before you plan to bake them for dinner? It would be great if I could do that and just have my husband put them in the oven. Thanks for sharing your fabulous recipes. I really think you should publish a book with all of them!

Gina, I can't find the measurements for the sauce. The tablespoon of mayo goes in the crab cakes, but I don't see how much goes in the sauce. And, how much of the roasted red peppers. If you've answered this before, I apologize! This is my third recipe of yours I'm trying, and I am ADDICTED (in a good, non-obsessive way of course). :)

These are absolutely delicious! I made them tonight for my (pretty finicky) boyfriend and me. He loved the sauce and crab combo! I forgot the chipotle chilis in adobo sauce at the store, so I subbed chipotle powder. It still tasted pretty good. Thanks Gina!!

These are SO delicious! I am usually not a big fan of crab cakes - too rich, but my family loves them. We all thought these were great. We made them very small and served as appetizers at a family gathering. They were perfect, and Mom and I loved how many we got to eat for 5 pp! Thanks Gina, I will be making these for dinner soon.

I just tried to make this for some friends. I made the crab cakes and let them sit in the refrigerator overnight in and air tight container to ensure that they would stay together. Otherwise, I followed your recipe to the letter and had terrible results. The cakes stuck to the baking sheet, despite my use of cooking spray. They also fell apart, no matter how delicate I was with them. What a waste of money.

I made these three different times. The first time came out perfect! The other two times I had the same experience as Anonymous above - they stuck (a little) to the pan, but fell apart when flipping. Any ideas why???? Still tasted delicious though!

I made these for dinner tonight with canned lump crab meat as that is all we can get in our area right now. They were excellent! Picky spouse who is not on WW loved them too. Thanks for all the great recipes! I love your site!

This recipe was amazingly delicious! I used canned crab from Costco and doubled the recipe. Hubby and I loved it and will use this sauce on everything! So glad I found your site and look forward to trying many more recipes!

Hi Gina, I can't say enough wonderful things about you and the work you have done with this website. My friend sent my a link last week and I have made about 8 recipes so far. Each better than the one before.

I'm not one for spicy so I didn't even bother with the sauce. What is the points value of the crab cakes alone and the sauce alone? Thanks again!

Am new to your website but have tried a few recipes and they are delicious! Can I freeze these crab cakes? Since I am cooking for 2, I try to pick recipes that can be cut in half or that I can freeze half. So my $.02 is if you could, where possible, indicate what can be frozen. Thanks!

Wow these were great! I didn't make the sauce to go with them (couldn't track down the canned peppers), and they were awesome anyways!Didn't even taste like a "healthy" version - full flavor like the good stuff :)Thank you!

Gina, these were delicious!! I did make them without your sauce only because of the heat factor. I made a lemon vinaigrette that I usually serve with crab cakes and served them on a bed of spring mix. Goes great with Pinot Grigio! Everyone wanted more so I will have to double the recipe next time!! TY for all your delicious and healthy recipes. I'll be making the spinach and zit, sofrito chicken stew, and the angel hair with shrimp and asparagus this week too! Can't wait to try them.

I've been wanting to make these but my husband doesn't like mayo. Is there anything you can recommend as a substitution? I'm not concerned about the point value of a substitution since we are not doing WW.

Gina- My husband and I just finished the cakes and they were so yummy!! The only problem was that they fell apart a bit, which isn't a big deal for us, but I wondered if you had any other tips to try to get them to stick together a little better (besides putting them in the fridge)? More egg? Thanks in advance for your advice! We love your website and have really enjoyed everything we've made (at least over 10 of your recipes!). Thanks!!

Scrum diddly umptions! WOW! Luckily I had enough points left to have 2 servings! Restaurant quality for sure! The sauce was spicy and a great compliment to it. Added a salad and asparagus. Thanks for this one...coconut shrimp tomorrow. You make "dieting" easy!

my husband and i are trying these tonight. just put them in the oven and they already smell delicious. just wanted to say thank you for creating such amazing recipes. we definitely don't feel like we're on a "diet" but rather just eating healthy. thanks!

I am going to make these crab cakes tonight. I attended a crab feed this past weekend compliments of my boss. He also attended (his wife was part of the group that sponsored the feed) and he threw out 8 crabs because they were sick of crab! He and I went dumpster diving (they were only in the garbage a few minutes) to retrieve the tossed crab! I plan on making as many cakes as I can and freezing them for future use. Thanks and I really enjoy your website!

Just made these tonight for dinner and they were amazing. We almost decided to skip the chipotle lime sauce, but I'm so glad we didn't. It was perfect and we also put avacado on top! I plan on trying the summer tomatoes, corn, crab and avacado salad tomorrow with the left over crab meat!

Thank you so much for your recipes. My friend and I are in college and make a new recipe of yours every week! You make eating healthy so much more fun!

Good morning! I just wanted to let you know that I shared this recipe on my weekly seafood roundup. Thank you for allowing me to share! http://carriesexperimentalkitchen.blogspot.com/2012/03/week-10-seafood-frenzy-friday.html

I love your recipes, we cook very similar. I make these crab cakes at least once a month. Last night my husband requested them for fathers day:) I switched it up a little and put each crab cake on a large Portabella mushroom then baked for 20 or 25 minutes. Yum, so good!

So I really wanted to try this recipe but husband brought home canned of crabmeat. I don't even know where he found it. Could I use it or just wait till I get back to the store and try it all another night. Thanks!!!

I made these for a tailgate today and they were a huge hit! I tripled the recipe and made smaller appetizer sized patties. I ended up with 45. I made them the night before and baked them in the morning. I did find that there was a little too much lime juice, so they were sitting in the juice after being refrigerated for a couple of hours. After draining the juice, they were perfect. Thanks so much - your recipes are amazing!!

Gina, you answered the mayo question above, but I'm hoping for a different answer:-). I'm allergic to eggs and dairy (the greek yogurt sub you suggested). Have you tried anything with vegan mayo and egg products? Think it would work? I haven't had crab cakes in so long, but I must try these!

I dont know what it is but altho I like all your recipes, your seafood ones always blow me away! This was soo good and my friend loved it. The only change I made was I added old bay seasoning to the crabcake mix and used extra roasted red peppers for the sauce.

One of the best crab cakes I've ever had! Had no trouble with them falling apart - I simply used a 1/2 cup measuring cup and dumped them out directly onto a parchment lined baking sheet and shaped them with the back of a spoon. I refrigerated them and put them directly in the oven - never touched them with my hands. They worked perfectly.

Hi Gina! I was wondering if the patties can chill overnight in the fridge? Sorry, I'm actually a vegetarian (thinking of making these for a party) and just don't know how careful to be with meat and fish!

These were so good. My husband said they were better than restaurant crab cakes! I used two 6 oz cans of lump crab meat. They were very moist, and I was a little concerned about their holding together ... there wasn't any problem. Thank you!

These crab cakes are fabulous; limited preparation yielded an outstanding meal. My husband and I made these cakes and sauce this morning (a Saturday) then refrigerated and baked tonight; our cakes developed small liquid pools around each during refrigeration – which may have been caused by the 8 oz., rather than 9 oz., lump crab container I purchased. Anyway – 11-minutes-per-side later these excellent crab cakes became dinner, with a side of steamed broccoli (that I dipped into the terrific Chipotle Lime sauce). We have already declared these crab cakes, in bite-size form, will be part of an upcoming holiday buffet.You are genius, Gina; every SkinnyTaste recipe I have tried has been excellent -- and these cakes are on par with your with your other bar-set-high, healthy, recipes. Thanks so much for helping your myriad fans become, or stay, healthy.

I made these on Tuesday night for dinner and my husband and I LOVED them. I put the crabcakes over mixed greens and used the chipotle lime mayo as dressing. Next time I will read the directions more closely and refrigerate them before baking. They were delicious, just a little flat. :)